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After the beauty of the flowers is past, turn the plants out into 

 a border prepared as advised for the seedlings, and loosen the roots 

 carefully before doing so. Towards the end of August or beginning 

 of September take the whole lot up and divide them into moderate- 

 sized tufts. Plant again in the same border, and when February 

 comes round, take up and pot and treat as before. 



To ensure good flowers, the seed must be saved from those which 

 possess the desired size, shape, colour, and regularity of markings, 

 and the plants from which it is intended to save seed should be 

 protected by a screen of some sort to prevent the pollen from infe- 

 rior flowers getting to them by insect and other agency. A skeleton 

 frame made with a few strips of wood, similar in shape to a hand- 

 glass, and then covered with coarse canvas, will afford effectual 

 protection. 



When grown simply for border decoration, sow the seed in the 

 open ground and transplant in the autumn. These, when they get 

 into large tufts, can be divided at the will of the cultivator. Where 

 pot culture is practised, there will always be plenty of inferior 

 flowers for the border. 



NEW CLOTHES FOR OLD PEGS. 



HO has ever tried the effect of a large clump of the old 

 everlasting pea pegged down ? I have seen a circular 

 bed, with a handsome shrub in the centre, completely 

 covered in that way, and the appearance was as pleasing 

 as novel. The climbing nasturtiums may be prettily 

 used as edgings, trained over half hoops ; and ivy may be treated in 

 a similar manner. Sweetbriar, clipped down to six or eight inches, 

 makes a fragrant and useful border, especially to sloping beds. 

 Strong-growing roses, pegged-down, have a charming effect, as like- 

 wise have some of the slender-habited petunias, redolent with the 

 scent of honey, and favourite haunt of bees. 



What is a garden without a bower ? Every garden, therefore, 

 however small, should have, if not a veritable bower, an arbour or 

 summer-house of some kind as a substitute. Such structures are 

 easily contrived, and in spite of such slight drawbacks as spiders and 

 earwigs, or the occasional irruption of an uninvited toad, are the only 

 true places for the enjoyment in hot weather of the arcadian luxury of 

 tea and shrimps, together with those charming little episodes of 

 squeaks and gathering up of skirts wherewith the fair sex (Vho are 

 always to be found in bowers) testify their dire alarm at the bounce 

 of an audacious wasp, or the grisly crawlings of an intrusive slug. 

 However they are peculiarly appropriate localities for quiet talk and 

 consumption of the fragrant weed. 



W. D. P. 



